Speaking at the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT) in Las Vegas (a major gun industry trade show), Ted Nugent launched into another vitriolic tirade against President Obama, calling him “an evil, dangerous man who hates America,” and coming very close to outright advocation of assassination and revolution. It seems like Ted won’t be happy until he provokes some gun-crazed paranoid wingnut into violence.

National Rifle Association board member and Washington Times columnist Ted Nugent alluded to the start of the American Revolution in an interview with guns.com during the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show, claiming that the Obama administration “is attempting to re-implement the tyranny of King George” and that “if you want another Concord Bridge, I got some buddies.”

NUGENT: I’m part of a very great experiment in self-government where we the people determine our own pursuit of happiness and our own individual freedom and liberty not to be confused with the Barack Obama gang who believes in we the sheeple and actually is attempting to re-implement the tyranny of King George that we escaped from in 1776. And if you want another Concord Bridge, I got some buddies.

Nugent’s mention of “Concord Bridge” is presumably a reference to the Battle of Concord, which was fought on the North Bridge. The battle, one of the early encounters of the Revolutionary War, forced the British to retreat.

Throughout his comments, Nugent directed vitriol towards President Obama, claiming that he is “an evil dangerous man who hates America and hates freedom” who “hangs out with” communists.

Self fulfilling and self aggrandizing statements from the Madman of Detroit.

Wishing for assassinations and revolution? Hoping that like-minded nuts stockpile weapons and then go nuts when the ATF cracks down on illegal purchases or thwarts a terror plot involving same as proof that still more revolutionary fervor is needed.

I think standing in front of those amps turned to 11ty have liquefied his brain to mush.

Cowardly coward is too cowardly to fight a war of overwhelming odds and shits his pants to avoid service against Viet Cong who literally live in dirt holes; is totally willing to sign his untrained buddies up for a civil war against the most powerful military the world has ever known.

Remember when people went apeshit when the Dixie Chicks said something innocuous about Bush?

Yeah being ashamed that the president is from the same state as you is awful and worthy of mass boycotts but advocating an armed uprising against a democratically elected government is just great. Nugent can go fuck off.

Yeah being ashamed that the president is from the same state as you is awful and worthy of mass boycotts but advocating an armed uprising against a democratically elected government is just great. Nugent can go fuck off.

“I’m part of a very great experiment in self-government where we the people determine our own pursuit of happiness and our own individual freedom and liberty “

No, Ted, you are part of a bigger experiment that has been going on for over 200 years and has involved hundreds of millions of people.

It involves collective decision-making in the form of elections, which, although sometimes flawed, have been generally free and fair.

It involves a system based on separation of powers, which, although also flawed, has so far been able to maintain a functioning and even prospering democracy for over 200 years.

It involves a syetem by which voters freely and fairly elect representatives and an executive whose job it is to provide for the common good, levy taxes to maintain the fucntioning of the government, and to nominate and confirm members of a Supreme Court to decide on whether the laws passed by elected officials and confirmed by the executive are legal and constitutional.

You are living in a fairytale world of Sovereign Citizens who believe they have the right to decide for themselves which laws to obey and which to ignore.

Ignoring Ted Nugent and his gibbering idiocy for a moment, I love how these gun nuts think that because they have an arsenal of AR-15s and some fatigues that they think they can go up against the US military, or that they would have a comparable level of firepower.

These morons are talking about fighting against the same military that spends more money than the next 17 countires combined. Do they honestly think they’ve got a chance?

Remember when people went apeshit when the Dixie Chicks said something innocuous about Bush?

I do. But the difference is it was the Dixie Chicks and they actually were relevant in the industry and were being played on many radio stations. A boycott of their music was noteworth. What would going apeshit about this do. Its not like any radio stations actually play his music anymore. I would venture to say that Ted Nugent fans today are more likely to be fans of his gun policy than his music. I would bet on it actually.

Ignoring Ted Nugent and his gibbering idiocy for a moment, I love how these gun nuts think that because they have an arsenal of AR-15s and some fatigues that they think they can go up against the US military, or that they would have a comparable level of firepower.

These morons are talking about fighting against the same military that spends more money than the next 17 countires combined. Do they honestly think they’ve got a chance?

They’re convinced as soon as the shooting starts, the entirety of the US military will turn on the Tyrant and join them on the road to storm the White House.

For a lot of these nuts, they think the military is, or would be, on their side in an actual uprising. Granted, I’m sure there’s folks in the military who would turn traitor under certain circumstances, but for these yahoos it’s not about fighting the U.S. Military. They think Obama’s black hordes (Obama’s Waffen SS, if you will) are coming to steal their guns, and they’re going to fend them off (translation: they want a reason to shoot black people).

Ignoring Ted Nugent and his gibbering idiocy for a moment, I love how these gun nuts think that because they have an arsenal of AR-15s and some fatigues that they think they can go up against the US military, or that they would have a comparable level of firepower.

These morons are talking about fighting against the same military that spends more money than the next 17 countires combined. Do they honestly think they’ve got a chance?

They want to be martyrs. What’s funny to me is people like Nugent wanted everyone who was remotely critical of the last administration to shut up but now we’ve got Obama in power, our government is tyrannical communist eleventy zomg!

Ignoring Ted Nugent and his gibbering idiocy for a moment, I love how these gun nuts think that because they have an arsenal of AR-15s and some fatigues that they think they can go up against the US military, or that they would have a comparable level of firepower.

These morons are talking about fighting against the same military that spends more money than the next 17 countires combined. Do they honestly think they’ve got a chance?

AR-15s vs APC.
All I hear are the pings of bullets bouncing harmlessly off the hull.

For a lot of these nuts, they think the military is, or would be, on their side in an actual uprising. Granted, I’m sure there’s folks in the military who would turn traitor under certain circumstances, but for these yahoos it’s not about fighting the U.S. Military. They think Obama’s black hordes (Obama’s Waffen SS, if you will) are coming to steal their guns, and they’re going to fend them off (translation: they want a reason to shoot black people).

Hell, even Horus knew you needed to purge loyalists before launching a rebellion. Then again, that’s why he was the Warmaster and not a washed up hillbilly rockstar with a gun fetish schtick.

I don’t honestly want to look for myself. Did that colossal dipshit just imply that homosexuality and the second amendment are in any way linked?

Why not he tries to link the bible which was written centuries before the first gun was made to the second amendment. Never underestimate how flexible people like that are when it comes to intellectual dishonesty.

Needless to say, they can’t imagine black and brown people who work at jobs with paid vacation either. Back in Nov, once you knew Obama won, getting an extra day off or so wouldn’t have been that hard to do.

So where’s the right’s anger on this? Or is that only reserved for rappers who just rap about it rather than those like Nugent who actually do it?

A. You libruls are misquoting Nugent, he was never say anything like that
B. No big deal because Obama is killing a million babies a day
C. What Nugent said was fine you people are just hate him because he isn’t “politically correct”
D. Chicago something
E. Soshulism
F. All of the above

A. You libruls are misquoting Nugent, he was never say anything like that
B. No big deal because Obama is killing a million babies a day
C. What Nugent said was fine you people are just hate him because he isn’t “politically correct”
D. Chicago something
E. Soshulism
F. All of the above

“To swear on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible during the inaugural address is just really blasphemy to do that,” Staver said, “Lincoln stood for principles completely different than this President stood for.”

Staver continued his anti-gay rant by maintaining that Obama is “the most immoral president that we’ve ever had in history” who is “pushing an immorality that is stunning.” He called Obama a “dictatorial president” who “does not like America” or the Constitution and blamed his “[putting] in-your face amoral, immoral and anti-American rhetoric and policies” for a spike in gun sales.

On Monday, MLK Day, Cuccinelli again made the comparison between his fight against the federal requirement that birth control be offered with no copay by insurance plans to King’s fight for equal rights for African Americans. Cuccinelli earned some headlines earlier this month when he told an Iowa show that opponents of the mandate need to be prepared to “go to jail” in protest of the law. (He later tried to walk that back a bit.)

Cuccinelli was asked Monday about the controversy on The John Fredericks Show, a conservative talk show in Virginia. He was shocked Democrats would raise the issue, casting the battle as a struggle for rights rather than an attack on contraception.

“Whenever I talk about religious liberty, you know they turn it around. All they talk about -they don’t talk about denying religious liberty. They talk about contraception. And I’m not talking about contraception. Government doesn’t have a role in contraception,” Cuccinelli told the radio show. “Government does have a role in protecting your civil rights especially today on MLK Day. The man who really came up with the American non-violent protest theory of civil disobedience. It’s pretty egregious that they can’t get any higher than contraception when we’re talking about protecting people’s religious liberty.”

If you don’t believe in contraception, then don’t fucking use it. Stop interfering with the rights of people who actually do want to use it.

Note to the idiot, dictators don’t with 52% of the vote. And I won’t even dignity calling him the most immoral president an the stupid crap about him hating America and the Constitution. Of course, at the same time I bet this is an idiot who has denounced him for being a specialist in constitutional law.

If you don’t believe in contraception, then don’t fucking use it. Stop interfering in with the rights of people who actually do want to use it.

The 2013 GOP nominee for Governor of Virginia, ladies and gentlemen. This is what I see when some people try to tell me that the GOP will moderate some day. A man who thinks taking on the contraceptive mandate makes him like MLK.

Staver: Yeah I would not be surprised if shortly after this second term comes that you will have some impeachment proceedings in the House. He’s just going to push, push, push, push and he’s going to push people over the edge. I think the House will respond and if not we need to make sure that they do respond. That’s what the previous caller was getting at, when they initiated these

impeachment proceedings during the Clinton administration and stopped him from doing a lot of the things he otherwise wanted to do in his term of office

.

Yeah, Clinton wanted a Social Security reform deal, i.e. the kind of “entitlement reform” the teabag set says it wants. So that worked our well for wingnuts. /

It is to Cuccinnelli. God I am hoping the current GOP Lt Governor who hates his guts decides to run third party.

I think it’s becoming pretty much inevitable. Bolling was totally put off by yesterday’s legislative stunt. McConnell says he disagrees with it, that it’s “not how to do business,” but that’s mostly because he wants to get stuff done this year. It’s been noted that, despite supposedly disagreeing with it, he’s not said he’ll veto it if it comes to his desk.

The state Senate is split 20-20 between Republicans and Democrats. On Monday, while state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) — a 79-year-old civil rights veteran — was reportedly in Washington to attend President Obama’s second inaugural, GOP senators forced through a mid-term redistricting plan that Democrats say will make it easier for Republicans to gain a majority.

Oh, yeah, and then they did this… on MLK day:

“On motion of Senator Stosch, the Senate adjourned in memory or [sic] General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson at 4:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, January 22, 2013,” read the official minutes of the legislative day.

I think it’s becoming pretty much inevitable. Bolling was totally put off by yesterday’s legislative stunt. McConnell says he disagrees with it, that it’s “not how to do business,” but that’s mostly because he wants to get stuff done this year. It’s been noted that, despite supposedly disagreeing with it, he’s not said he’ll veto it if it comes to his desk.

I think so too. I hope it does happen because I think the only way McAuliffe can win is if there’s a rift in the Republicans.

YOHO: On guns, [my constituents] were saying that the sentiment, when you read the Second Amendment, is that the militia had the same equipment as the military to protect them against the tyrannical government. I think it’s more important today than ever, that we uphold our second amendment.

A well regulated militia already has access to them. It’s called the National Guard. You want to use them? Go ahead and sign up.

Timothy D. Russell, a former aide to Gov. Scott Walker, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison and five years probation for stealing more than $21,000 from a veterans organization that Walker named him to lead.

Milwaukee Circuit Judge David Hansher imposed the sentence, saying he found insincere Russell’s apology and acceptance of responsibility for stealing from a nonprofit chosen to administer Walker’s annual Operation Freedom veterans picnic at the zoo.

“There is also no true regret, remorse or repentance,” Hansher told Russell. “I find that you don’t even have any shame.”

Russell, 49, served as Walker’s deputy chief of staff, housing director and in other administrative posts while Walker was Milwaukee County executive. Prosecutors say he did political work while on county time, although he wasn’t formally charged with that.

Ah, I see it’s already been posted on. Still, let’s see if their leader’s “disapproval” actually amounts to anything. I’m getting shades of the time the Wisconsin GOP pushed through the “fiscal bill”, even going so far as to shut off the house chamber’s cameras.

A well regulated militia already has access to them. It’s called the National Guard. You want to use them? Go ahead and sign up.

So fucking tired of these assholes.

Yeah give me a home nuke and stealth bomber because I need protection from the tyrannical government. Really, seriously this shit is getting old. The second amendment doesn’t say that citizens should be able to own whatever firearms the government does.

The new Twitter Cards feature for embedded tweets is very cool. Note that if you post an LGF Page, and have a Twitter account, your name and Twitter ID will show up as the author of the Page when someone tweets the link. Example:

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So really, the 2nd Amendment means that the average person is supposed to have access to the same weapons as our soldiers? Great, just what we need, the next Lanza or Holmes walking into an elementary school with a SAW with a 200-round box magazine loaded with armor-piercing rounds.

Please do not insult the fine city of Detroit by further associating it with this mad teabilly. Ted may have been born here, but he now lives in Texas and somewhere in outstate Michigan. Not in Motown.

So really, the 2nd Amendment means that the average person is supposed to have access to the same weapons as our soldiers? Great, just what we need, the next Lanza or Holmes walking into an elementary school with a SAW with a 200-round box magazine loaded with armor-piercing rounds.

The government is our EMPLOYEE! We are the EMPLOYER! We shouldn’t have inferior firepower compared to them.

I swear these people spend their days daydreaming about an imaginary oppressive government. Really, if you seriously think Barack Obama is a tyrant. You need to get your head checked out. That’s not to say you can’t disagree with his policies but for fuck sake, don’t tell me that you’re like a Jew in 1930’s Germany, like a dissident in the USSR, or like an African American in the South during Jim Crow. Hell the Republicans still have the majority in the House of Representatives and conservatives make up a good chunk of the Supreme Court. If that’s tyranny, then everything’s tyranny.

Leading up to the 2012 election, a project called “Champion the Vote” urged Christians to register voters who would vote the “Biblical worldview.” Champion the Vote was created by a group called “United in Purpose” and had numerous right wing evangelical partners, such as Kenneth Copeland, who told his audience before the election that “If you’re a Christian and you don’t vote, then you are out of line with the Word of God. You’re out of line in your place as a believer in the Body of Christ because the United States of America is the only nation in history that was ever organized by people for a specific purpose to praise and worship God.”

Bill Dallas, a spokesman for Champion the Vote and United in Purpose, has released a video promoting United in Purpose’s new project, “Churches Impacting Culture.” As with the other projects, Churches Impacting Culture seeks to mobilize Christians opposed to abortion rights and marriage equality, and advocates a vision to make the Judeo-Christian God the “central authority in American life.”

America hasn’t declared war for over 70 years because, politically speaking, it’s actually easier to send a quarter million troops into a country than it is to declare war against it. Which is why it’s strange that someone at Fox News declares a new war every 11 seconds. They use that word so desperately and often that if you taught a child that “war” meant “HELP!” he would produce perfect Fox News copy every time you dropped him in a well. Here are some of the greatest military campaigns ever fought by this fair and balanced army.

They’re scared of the Obama they made up in their heads. Simple as that. They make shit up to be afraid of.

What amazes me is they call Obama “hateful” “nasty” while being just that to him and anyone who supports him. How many tweets have we seen from nutjobs who think that employers should fire liberal employees out of spite?

I’m convinced this level of anger is just as powerfully addictive as meth is. I’m not snarking here at all. Addicts do not think rationally while they’re using, it’s not possible. And we see it every single day.

I’m convinced this level of anger is just as powerfully addictive as meth is. I’m not snarking here at all. Addicts do not think rationally while they’re using, it’s not possible. And we see it every single day.

They’re scared of the Obama they made up in their heads. Simple as that. They make shit up to be afraid of.

The moment that perfectly illustrated that to the world was when Clint Eastwood was yelling at a chair on live TV during the RNC.

Right wing nutters went on about how great Clint’s speech was. Everyone else was confused about what the fuck they had just watched and if he was even referring to the same man who’d been POTUS for the last few years.

I’m convinced this level of anger is just as powerfully addictive as meth is. I’m not snarking here at all. Addicts do not think rationally while they’re using, it’s not possible. And we see it every single day.

And it destroys your teeth, too! Albeit by mechanical action instead of biological.

Yes, as noted in the TFN report that I linked a few days ago, there really is a public school in Texas where the teacher is using that slide to show that Africans are descended form (the infamous) Ham.

I’m convinced this level of anger is just as powerfully addictive as meth is. I’m not snarking here at all. Addicts do not think rationally while they’re using, it’s not possible. And we see it every single day.

The moment that perfectly illustrated that to the world was when Clint Eastwood was yelling at a chair on live TV during the RNC.

Right wing nutters went on about how great Clint’s speech was. Everyone else was confused about what the fuck they had just watched and if he was even referring to the same man who’d been POTUS for the last few years.

Yeah most people saw that speech and wondered what the fuck Eastwood was rambling about. To the nutcases, it was up there with the Gettysburg Address, I Have a Dream, and others.

That could be me on one of my planned street photography trips. In the past i have walked away despite being in the right. I’m getting more reluctant to do so, more willing to risk arrest to navigate the waters of a critical aspect of the 1st Amendment.

The person’s mtDNA haplogroup is assigned to the “B” supergroup, the same one as many East Asians and native North Americans.

BTW, according to Ken Ham and the literalists, the eastern Europeans and rest of the Asians are supposed to be descended from the same person as these groups above… but clearly the mtDNA shows they are not. Not that Ken Ham will change his mind or anything.

From the PNAS paper summary:

The DNA hybridization capture strategy described here allows sequencing of large sections (>>1 Mbp) of the nuclear genome from mammalian samples even in the presence of a large excess of microbial DNA, a situation typical of almost all ancient samples outside permafrost regions. This opens the possibility of generating DNA sequences from previously inaccessible ancient samples. We use this capture strategy to analyze an early modern human, the Tianyuan individual, who contains less than 0.03% endogenous DNA.

The results show that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native Americans. However, they had already diverged from the ancestors of present-day Europeans.

That Europeans and East Asians had diverged by 40,000 y ago is consistent with dates for the ﬁrst archaeological appearance of modern humans in Europe and also with the upper end of an estimate [23 ka BP (95% CI: 17–43 ka BP)] for the divergence of East Asian and European populations from nuclear DNA variation in present-day populations (34). The results also show that the Tianyuan individual did not carry any larger proportion of Neandertal or Denisovan DNA sequences in its genome than present-day people in the region. More analyses of additional early modern humans across Eurasia will further reﬁne our understanding of when and how modern humans spread across Eurasia.

The results show that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native Americans. However, they had already diverged from the ancestors of present-day Europeans.

That Europeans and East Asians had diverged by 40,000 y ago is consistent with dates for the ﬁrst archaeological appearance of modern humans in Europe

iirc, there were three species of humans living in africa and eurasia at that date: homo sapiens sapiens, homo sapiens neanderthalensis, and homo erectus

The results show that early modern humans present in the Beijing area 40,000 y ago were related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians as well as Native Americans. However, they had already diverged from the ancestors of present-day Europeans.

That Europeans and East Asians had diverged by 40,000 y ago is consistent with dates for the ﬁrst archaeological appearance of modern humans in Europe

iirc, there were three species of humans living in africa and eurasia at that date: homo sapiens sapiens, homo sapiens neanderthalensis, and homo erectus

No, probably not.

First, we have to deal with the lumper/splitter issue in biology. It is no longer clear to me that the idea of “Homo sapiens ssp. sapiens” makes sense, or to split up any of the post-H. heidelbergensis species the way we do.

40,000 years ago we know the following exist from their remnants:
(1) anatomically modern humans in West, North, and East Africa, as well as Eurasia and parts of Oceania.
(2) culturally modern humans, apparently from their tools.
(3) “Neanderthals” remaining in a few spots.
(4) “Denisovans” in south Siberia, a close relative to the Neanderthals.
(5) H. florensiensis, some sort of small statured hominin on at least one island in Oceania.

As is the case with all of archeology and paleontology, our discoveries can never be thought of as comprehensive of what existed at the time.

First, we have to deal with the lumper/splitter issue in biology. It is no longer clear to me that the idea of “Homo sapiens ssp. sapiens” makes sense, or to split up any of the post-H. heidelbergensis species the way we do.

40,000 years ago we know the following exist from their remnants:
(1) anatomically modern humans in West, North, and East Africa, as well as Eurasia and parts of Oceania.
(2) culturally modern humans, apparently from their tools.
(3) “Neanderthals” remaining in a few spots.
(4) “Denisovans” in south Siberia, a close relative to the Neanderthals.
(5) H. florensiensis, some sort of small statured hominin on at least one island in Oceania.

As is the case with all of archeology and paleontology, our discoveries can never be thought of as comprehensive of what existed at the time.

what species did homo sapiens sapiens evolve from? i thought the accepted estimate for the first homo sapiens sapiens like humans was at about 200,000 bc… and the ancestors must have been around at that time

what species did homo sapiens sapiens evolve from? i thought the accepted estimate for the first homo sapiens sapiens like humans was at about 200,000 bc… and the ancestors must have been around at that time

The question is whether “H. sapiens sapiens” is too artificial of a division. It’s sort of analogous to what has happened in plant taxonomy, where many families of Orchids have been so finely divided that the difference between “species” is simply a small differences in morphology.

It’s not clear to me what the divisions are now, with all we know, of all those humans that from cranial measurements appear to be “modern”.

There are skulls/fragments from both west Africa and East Africa of “modern” humans. The most famous is the “Omo” remains:
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Notice that with the new Twitter embed code you don’t see the page jumping down for several seconds as all the embedded tweets are rendered. It’s much faster now. That was one of my main gripes with the old code.

I kind of wish we could have a Democrat and a Republican president at the same time so that we could see ODS and BDS running in parallel.

We could have “Lincoln freed the enslaved masses and Obama is freely enslaving the masses” on twitter at the same time as “Bush is responsible for all terrorism so that he can steal oil, spread Christianity and kill brown people”.

It would be fun to see if they’re ever the same people and if there’s anyone sane left in the whole country.

The question is whether “H. sapiens sapiens” is too artificial of a division. It’s sort of analogous to what has happened in plant taxonomy, where many families of Orchids have been so finely divided that the difference between “species” is simply a small differences in morphology.

It’s not clear to me what the divisions are now, with all we know, of all those humans that from cranial measurements appear to be “modern”.

There are skulls/fragments from both west Africa and East Africa of “modern” humans. The most famous is the “Omo” remains:
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

ok, but what do you call the ancestors that the Omo remains evolved from and when did they die out?

I kind of wish we could have a Democrat and a Republican president at the same time so that we could see ODS and BDS running in parallel.

We could have “Lincoln freed the enslaved masses and Obama is freely enslaving the masses” on twitter at the same time as “Bush is responsible for all terrorism so that he can steal oil, spread Christianity and kill brown people”.

It would be fun to see if they’re ever the same people and if there’s anyone sane left in the whole country.

French air raids on the fabled Malian city of Timbuktu destroyed a mansion belonging to Libya’s former strongman Moamer Kadhafi which was being used by Islamist radicals as their headquarters, officials said.

French planes bombed a major base of the Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) near Timbuktu, a French defence ministry official confirmed on Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The last raids took place on Sunday night.

Notice that with the new Twitter embed code you don’t see the page jumping down for several seconds as all the embedded tweets are rendered. It’s much faster now. That was one of my main gripes with the old code.

ok, but what do you call the ancestors that the Omo remains evolved from and when did they die out?

Well, that is the challenge of modern physical anthropology.

In the past few decades the term H. heidelbergensis has been used as a catch all species name for the ancestor of the later humans. This older species remains are found in Europe and Africa, have brain sizes intermediate between the later species and the earlier H. erectus .

One reason why complete DNA testing of different groups in southern Africa is enlightening is because they point to other ancient groups besides Neanderthals/Denisovans with which modern humans interbred.

The truth might be this: there always was quite a “bushy” family tree, with many admixtures over the past 5 or 6 million years.

One (of several) reasons why the genetic “Adam” and genetic “Eve” stories confuses people is because they don’t understand that finding a most common recent ancestor (whether on the purely paternal or maternal lines) doesn’t say much about the rest of the ancestry contemporaneous with those individuals, or their own ancestry.

This brings us to a view which is quite, quite different than that of the creationists. Not only were there never only just 2 humans alive at one point, there was never a time when only one type of human was alive, until very recently.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned the U.N. Security Council against requiring the world body to provide logistical support for combat military operations in Mali, saying such a move would put U.N. civilian staff throughout the region at “grave risk.”

The new system, which Tomalis initiated without federal approval and at the behest of a charter school lobbying group, made it easier for charter schools to reach federal standards than traditional public schools. It classified charters, no matter their size, as school districts, which are measured on a broader scale than individual schools.

The U.S. Department of Education, however, shot down that change in November. It ordered Pennsylvania to recalculate the charters’ AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) status on the school level and publicize the results by January. So under the federal order, charters must have the school-level and district-level grades.

Under Tomalis’ system, 77 charter schools — or 49 percent — made AYP when they were measured as school districts.

But when tabulated as individual schools, only 43 — or 28 percent — made AYP, according to a Morning Call analysis of state data.

By comparison, 49 percent of the state’s public schools made AYP and about 61 percent of the state’s 499 school districts that administered the PSSAs did, too.

I’m tired of these mouse-dick rednecks and their stupid posturing. I’m tired of their punk ass pickups speeding up to cut me off every time I try to change lanes in Lubbock. I’m tired of their chicken shit machismo, their drunk driving, their fake outrage, and their empty threats about their guns. This is a diseased subculture and it is time to confront it head-on. Bring it on, Ted, you self-shitting coward and malingerer. I know what Victor Charlie and the Iraqi insurgents could do, let’s see what you and your idiot buddies have.

They were humble farmers who grew corn and dwelt in subterranean pit houses. But the people who lived 1200 years ago in a Utah village known as Site 13, near Canyonlands National Park in Utah, seem to have had at least one indulgence: chocolate. Researchers report that half a dozen bowls excavated from the area contain traces of chocolate, the earliest known in North America. The finding implies that by the end of the 8th century C.E., cacao beans, which grow only in the tropics, were being imported to Utah from orchards thousands of kilometers away.

Perhaps it has been mentioned upthread, but the SHOT show is hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which is an firearms industry trade association based in … Newtown Connecticut.

And I had to dig through some old documents to find out some names of their management team. The last time I visited their website, that link was broken for some inexplicable reason. So they may not all be up to date, but I do know that a couple of them still Tweet..

Not really. The person who threw the stink bomb acknowledged that judging guilt or innocence at trial based on weight was indefensible. However, the stink bomb itself was “being fat is a choice”, which if adopted without a lot of caveats and reservations pretty much leads directly to all of the anti-fat conclusions one might want to arrive at.

LOL. ok reminded of my morning. i leave at 515 am (auto-pilot) today there was a plastic bag of trash in the middle of the complex road. just like they started walking towards the dumpster and said fuck it. I ignored and went to work!

somewhat faithfully. It came on Channel 13 (KERA-TV, incidentally the first American TV station to broadcast Monty Python) late at night. The Dr Who theme music used to truly scare me when I was a wee lad. It sounded so futuristic, alien, and sinister.

I recently tried to watch some more recent incarnations on Netflix, and it seemed to be a lot more comedy-oriented than I expected.

So Harry Reid has given Mitch McConnell and his fellow Republicans 36 hours to pull their heads out of their asses and come to an agreement on filibuster reform…My guess is they’ll spend that 36 hours on Fox News complaining about it and hope he doesn’t just a simple majority to get this through without them.

The article mentions that Eccleston is considering returning. I couldn’t really blame him for hating the show after having a bad experience with the show-runners, but I had hoped that he would see that The Doctor is more important than he is.

I first watched Dr. Who when Pertwee played the part, and my local PBS station rebroadcast the BBC series.

In college a friend of mine liked it when the fourth Doctor was there… but I didn’t really pick up interest until the the renewed series in 2005.

Everyone ignores the American movie version with the one-off Doctor.

Short synopsis on my Theory of Doctor Who: The BBC, in searching for children’s show in the 1960’s stumbled upon the idea of a fatherly figure as a space traveler, incorporating the zany British humor of the time. Over the years the series has transformed into a generalized post-Christian exercise in existentialism, with “The Doctor” being a new Christ-figure in a post-Christian UK.

I first watched Dr. Who when Pertwee played the part, and my local PBS station rebroadcast the BBC series.

In college a friend of mine liked it when the fourth Doctor was there… but I didn’t really pick up interest until the the renewed series in 2005.

Everyone ignores the American movie version with the one-off Doctor.

Short synopsis on my Theory of Doctor Who: The BBC, in searching for children’s show in the 1960’s stumbled upon the idea of a fatherly figure as a space traveler, incorporating the zany British humor of the time. Over the years the series has transformed into a generalized post-Christian exercise in existentialism, with “The Doctor” being a new Christ-figure in a post-Christian UK.

Actually, the “American” version is still part of the official series. He appeared in a bunch of the radio, comics, and books, and it was that incarnation of the Doctor which fought in the Time War.

shes fine. (sounds like it!). had to pipe in about the crazy prophet rants.

I miss her. It’s really kind of funny to look back and how we became friends in the old days. I’m sorry I lost her email addy several years ago. But Reine used to screen all my email request from LGF. She would decide if that lizard was a whack case or forward with notes on who that lizard was and a seal of approval. Remember when first came here I was running a little charity called food4huminity.org. I was targeted by some. they went to my website and it contained all my personal information and my life story and why I want to start a charity. I don’t think anybody would have guessed the backlash. You have to change web sites and name. You can’t have that much fake BS thrown at you every day as a charity and survive the lies.
It got ugly and I shut down the site and moved onto to another site. ( and changed all my numbers)
Reine stepped up and acted as a true friend to protect what privacy I had left. Good Lady.. I sure have learned alot blogging for 10 years.

Unfortunately, he was saddled with some really stupid things. Namely a very, very miscast Master. And some completely out in left field points that Doctor Who has attempted to sweep under the rug. And Justifiably too.

Houston said that Griego had waited for his mother to fall asleep before gaining access to her unlocked bedroom closet to obtain an AR-15, a .22 rifle and two 12-gauge shotguns. Some of the weapons had been purchased by the father through private sales, the investigation found.

“The teen told authorities after killing his family he reloaded his weapons so that he could ‘drive to populated area to murder more people,’” KRQE reported. “He expressed a desire to shoot people at random and eventually be killed while exchanging gunfire with law enforcement.”

The story didn’t get into detail, but the father who left the loaded gun there should be facing homicide charges or at the very least reckless endangerment. If the local authorities just say aw shucks, it was an accident, that would be a disgrace.

The article mentions that Eccleston is considering returning. I couldn’t really blame him for hating the show after having a bad experience with the show-runners, but I had hoped that he would see that The Doctor is more important than he is.

Eccleston was my first Time Lord - I was way late to the party. My wife’s been watching pretty much since the beginning and mocks me for being a Who Noob.

I miss her. It’s really kind of funny to look back and how we became friends in the old days. I’m sorry I lost her email addy several years ago. But Reine used to screen all my email request from LGF. She would decide if that lizard was a whack case or forward with notes on who that lizard was and a seal of approval. Remember when first came here I was running a little charity called food4huminity.org. I was targeted by some. they went to my website and it contained all my personal information and my life story and why I want to start a charity. I don’t think anybody would have guessed the backlash. You have to change web sites and name. You can’t have that much fake BS thrown at you every day as a charity and survive the lies.
It got ugly and I shut down the site and moved onto to another site. ( and changed all my numbers)
Reine stepped up and acted as a true friend to protect what privacy I had left. Good Lady.. I sure have learned alot blogging for 10 years.

Hoops, that you got shit for your charity…damn. FYI i never requested/therefore was never deemed dangerous!

The only thing shocking is that these mouthbreathers are able to reproduce at all.

Chimps reproduce just fine. It’s a mistake to think that abstract reasoning is required for human survival. It seems to me like we seeing a collision between man’s higher reasoning on one side, and grunting, emotion-driven brutes on the other.

Sadly, no. The movie is part of official Doctor Who lore, though the half-human part is considered to be untrue.

You’re looking for rigorous consistency in Doctor Who? William Hartnell (the First Doctor) was not, as far as I can recall, designated a Time Lord until the programme had been going for a while, and his first companion was his granddaughter. (An Unearthly Child and the first appearance of the Daleks are both available on DVD.)

Eccleston was my first Time Lord - I was way late to the party. My wife’s been watching pretty much since the beginning and mocks me for being a Who Noob.

My first Doctor was Patrick Troughton (the Second Doctor) though I did also see Hartnell in repeats. I have seen episodes which literally no longer exist anywhere. The BBC criminally erased or destroyed vast amounts of its output from the 1950s and 1960s, variously supposedly because archive space was limited, or the videotape they used at the time was too horribly expensive not to re-use, and who would ever want to watch a television program a second time? Auntie Beeb’s fiscal restraint went beyond cheap sets.

Some stories — prior to the 2005 revival, a single plot would typically span four half-hour episodes — have been only partially reconstituted for DVD release, with mixes of colour and black-and-white footage, and sometimes passages with only audio. Episodes thought to be lost have turned up from time to time around the world, but there are still many gaps in the early canon.

Well, if Uncle Ted is so adamant about his rights, then as a consequence, we should also proffer a zero tolerance in regards to improper gun usage:

(1) An accidental gun discharge that results in another’s injury is punishable by a minimum 10 years sentence with a lifetime firearms ban. An accidental gun discharge which causes injury to the holder of the firearm will result in 100% of all medical charges being directly billed to the affected party with no private or public insurance co-pays.

(2) The discharge of a gun by a perpretrator in the commission of a felony is an automatic life sentence.

(3) Use of a firearm while intoxicated is an automatic 20 year prison sentence plus a lifetime firearms ban.

Here’s the cognitive dissonance of the gun worshipers, the NRA’ers and the followers of Zardoz: They want the absolute 2nd Amendment right, but with no consequences when their behavior goes outside what society accepts. If the Second Amendment is absolute, then the punishment for committing crimes using your protected Second Amendment rights is also absolute.

And yes, these would be Federal Penalties, in order to prevent some state from mis-interpreting the true meaning of the rights AND obligations of the 2nd Amendment.

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